An inter-agency team assesses IDPs’ needs in opposition-controlled area in northern Jonglei: UNHCR joined an inter-‐agency rapid needs assessment in opposition-controlled Kalopach on 6‐8 October to follow up on reports from the County Commissioner of over 17,000 IDPs in the payam. Preliminary findings show, among others, that IDPs are well accepted and integrated in the local community, but resources are scarce and absorption capacity exhausted. IDPs and host communities are in great need of food, non-food items, health, education and WASH. Family reunification was reported as a priority need in a context where families were separated due to rapid and sudden flight.
South Sudanese authorities intercepts the first organized mixed migration movement in the country: The South Sudanese authorities released a group of 75 mixed migrants of mostly Somali origin (56 men and 19 women) who had been intercepted in Aweil and then detained in Wau. The authorities established that this group had travelled through Kenya, Uganda and then South Sudan with the intention of crossing to Sudan. The authorities confirmed that the smugglers escaped and stated that this is the first organized mixed migration movement intercepted in the country. UNHCR and IOM followed the situation closely and sensitized the authorities about migrants’ rights and their right to seek asylum. None of the mixed migrants wished to seek asylum or intended to stay in South Sudan.
IDPs in Maban receive a 15-‐day stock of food rations: In Maban, UNHCR in coordination with WFP and partners Humanitarian Development Consortium and Samaritan’s Pursue provided a 15-day stock of food rations to 11,059 IDPs in nine displacement sites around Bunj town.
In Yida, children and mothers receive supplementary food: In Yida, UNHCR partner Samaritan’s Pursue carried out Blanket Supplementary Feeding Programme (BSFP) for 4,364 children aged 6 to 23 months and 4,954 Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW).